Games like HOUND
If HOUND is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sand in a Box, Ecosystem Architect and Lunar Odyssey — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About HOUND: Create then experiment with your artificial intelligent life form in HOUND, an open-world simulation god game (kind of). Not a game in the traditional sense, HOUND is more like the science experiment that gives Elon Musk nightmares.
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Steam players who put hours into HOUND also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Sand in a Box
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Top pick for HOUND fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with HOUND.
Sand in a Box is a 'falling sand' game that simulates thermal flow, electricity, radioactive decay, and gravity. Create art, experiment with physics, and craft your own simulation rules with user-friendly mod support!
Ecosystem Architect
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Second-strongest match for HOUND fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with HOUND.
In Ecosystem Architect, build the ecosystem of your dreams and let your imagination run wild. With a vast selection of foliage, animals, and prehistoric creatures, mix-and-match to your heart's content and watch your environment come to life as they interact in an in-depth simulation.
Lunar Odyssey
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Third-strongest match for HOUND fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with HOUND.
Don your xEMU Spacesuit, explore the Orontius Crater, and Lunar Module in an immersive first-person VR experience with out of this world accuracy and interaction. Follow real-life procedures, launch the Apollo-era Lunar Module, play Space Golf, and experience the moon like never before.
Quantum Odyssey
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Ranked #4 for HOUND fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with HOUND.
Master the most counter-intuitive logic in existence. Created by the researchers who defined Quantum Literacy, Quantum Odyssey is an open-ended puzzle game where you craft real quantum algorithms. Optimize 500+ challenges, hack other players, and gain insights textbooks can’t provide.
Natural Instincts: European Forest
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Ranked #5 for HOUND fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with HOUND.
Protect the environment, and save it from harm! Give commands to the animals, observe their rituals and help them survive. Face different disasters, react to human presence and help the animal kingdom flourish in this unique, environmental experience!
The Sapling
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Ranked #6 for HOUND fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with HOUND.
The Sapling is a short simulation game where you design your own plants and animals, and put them in a world together. Or you turn on random mutations, and see what evolution does to your ecosystem!
Substrate: Emergence
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Ranked #7 for HOUND fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with HOUND.
Grow fluorescent cells that create mesmerizing emergent chaos. Simple mechanics hide deep complexity as cells evolve survival strategies through synergistic interactions. Catalogue successful lines and culture them to develop your own unique biology.
Galaxy Too Far
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Ranked #8 for HOUND fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with HOUND.
Another world is about to become a resource colony for your Creator. Prove your usefulness. Spread your influence across the planet. Take all resources you can reach. Build a base on the surface and in space. Сomplete the construction of an intergalactic beacon to absorb the entire planet.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with HOUND.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with HOUND.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with HOUND.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with HOUND.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with HOUND.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with HOUND.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with HOUND.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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Frequently asked about HOUND
- What games are most similar to HOUND?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside HOUND are Sand in a Box, Ecosystem Architect, Lunar Odyssey.
- Who developed HOUND?
- HOUND was developed by Nick Shesterin.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on HOUND.
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